U.S. Federal brokers arrested a person working as a crew member for Disney Cruise Line on two federal prices for possessing quite a few little one sexual abuse materials, in response to a prison criticism filed yesterday within the U.S. District Court docket for the Southern District of Florida (Broward County).
Tirso Anthony Neri, age 44, was recognized in court docket data as a crew member on the Disney Dream cruise ship primarily based in Port Everglades. Neri was charged with violating 18 USC 2252(a)(i) (transportation of kid pornography) and 2252(a)(4)(B) (possession of kid pornography) after brokers for the U.S. Customs and Border Safety and Homeland Safety Investigations discovered pornographic pictures of youngsters as younger as age 9 on his cell telephones.
Crew member Neri is the third crew member on the Disney Dream to be arrested within the final two months. Disney ship worker Alvin Gonzalez, age 49, was additionally arrested on the Disney Dream in early February of this yr for possession of a video of a boy, believed to be as younger as 8, and a woman, estimated to be as younger as 12, having intercourse with one another. Amiel Trazo, one other Disney crew member, age 28, was arrested in late February on prices of possessing quite a few supplies depicting graphic little one sexual abuse “with youngsters between the approximate ages of 6 and 14.”
The investigation into Disney crew member Neri started in mid-December of final yr. Neri waived his Miranda rights and admitted in questioning by federal brokers that he participated in a number of group chats on Telegraph and Fb Messenger chat apps from which he downloaded pornography on-line.
These three Disney crew members are simply among the quite a few sexual pedophile perverts not too long ago caught by U.S. authorities on cruise ships. Cris John Pentinio Castor, a 35 year-old cruise ship youth counselor employed by Movie star Cruises, was arrested in December of 2023 for sexually abusing a 6-year-old woman within the youth middle of the Movie star Silhouette throughout a cruise to the Caribbean. Castor subsequently waived his Miranda rights and voluntarily informed FBI investigators that he molested not solely the woman however a minimum of three different minor youngsters whereas they have been visiting the middle on the cruise ship since August.
Among the most infamous sexual crimes involving minors concerned two Princess Cruises ship staff, together with an assistant cruise director, who have been sentenced final yr to mixed phrases of over 45 years in federal jail for little one pornography and sexual assault.
Daniel Scott Crow, employed by Princess Cruises as an assistant cruise director, was sentenced late final yr by Southern District of Florida Choose Jose Martinez to thirty (30) years in jail for engaging an underage little one to have interaction in intercourse with him and participate within the manufacturing of kid pornography. Crow was thirty-five (35) years of age when he met the sixteen (16) yr previous little one throughout a cruise in July 2019 on an unidentified Princess Cruises ship. A press launch by the Division of Justice (DOJ) units forth the essential info of the disturbing sexual crimes dedicated by Crowe.
A second Princess crew member, Angelo Victor Fernandes, from India, age 34, labored on the identical Princess cruise ship as Crow. Fernandes was mates with Crow and the 2 males mentioned “acquiring youngsters for intercourse.” Fernandes admitted to federal brokers when he was arrested that he was sexually drawn to Crow and despatched him sexually specific movies and little one pornography in change for movies of Crow masturbating. The 2 crew members mentioned travelling to sexually abuse youngsters as younger as 5 years of age. Choose Aileen Cannon, of the federal district court docket in Fort Pierce, Florida, sentenced Fernandes final week to 188 months (over 15 and1/2 years) in jail. A press launch by the DOJ units forth the essential info of the crimes dedicated by Fernandes.
We’ve repeatedly reported that roughly one-third of sexual crimes on cruise ships contain minors. It’s harmful to depart your youngsters alone on cruise ships or belief ship staff along with your youngsters. There isn’t a sexual predator database exterior of the U.S. the place these explicit crew members have been employed. We’ve dealt with over one-hundred and twenty-five sexual assault instances in opposition to passengers on cruise ships over the previous twenty years. Roughly over-third of the instances concerned minors.
The prime location now we have concluded for a crew member to assault younger youngsters is within the visitor cabin. Cabin attendants can use their grasp key playing cards to enter cabins if and when dad and mom go away their youngsters, considering it’s protected to go to a membership or bar at night time.
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Picture credit score: Disney Dream – ajmexico CC BY 2.0 commons / wikimedia; TIRSO ANTHONY NERI – tricountybests.